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First kings of Europe : exhibition catalog /

"This is the catalog of an international exhibition, "First Kings of Europe." Over several millennia, early agricultural villages in southeastern Europe gave rise to tribal kingdoms and monarchies, replacing smaller, more egalitarian social structures with complex state organizations...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gyucha, Attila (Author), Parkinson, William A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Balkan Peninsula > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Balkan Peninsula > Kings and rulers > Exhibitions.
Balkan Peninsula > Politics and government > Exhibitions.
Balkan Peninsula > Social life and customs > Exhibitions.
Prehistoric peoples > Balkan Peninsula > Exhibitions.
Power (Social sciences) > Balkan Peninsula > History > To 1500 > Exhibitions.
Group identity > Balkan Peninsula > History > To 1500 > Exhibitions.
Social archaeology > Balkan Peninsula > Exhibitions.
Ethnoarchaeology > Balkan Peninsula > Exhibitions.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Balkan Peninsula > Exhibitions.
Antiquities.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Group identity.
Kings and rulers.
Manners and customs.
Politics and government.
Power (Social sciences)
Prehistoric peoples.
Social archaeology.
Balkan Peninsula.
To 1500
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Letter from the president of the Field Museum of Natural History
  • Letter from the directors of the European Lending Institutions
  • List of contributors
  • List of lending institutions
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: First kings of Europe
  • A land before kings: the Neolithic period
  • The first Gilded Era: the Copper age
  • New routes to power: the Bronze age
  • The birth of royalty: the Iron age
  • Bibliography.